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214 County Workhouse, and David J. Reinhardt, solicitor of the city of Wilmington. It read : " Call militia out at once to protect workhouse prop- erty. Already entered by mob of 2,000." It was then too late for the Governor to take such action, it is said, as the troops could not have reached the scene in time to prevent the deed of violence. Lynchers Talk Openly Men who took part in the extraordinary deed, only three hours from New York, are talking openly in the street of their acts, and the mob's work is pointed out as a triumph of human justice over law. The Protestant ministers today denounced the lynchers, but in their resolutions no demand or desire is expressed for the authorities to take action against the executors of mob law. Neighbors know one an- other as members of that lawless band, and no con- cealment is made. A hundred names of the lynchers could be quoted now. County detectives marched with the mob to the jail. There are scores whom they must have recognized. Chief of Police George Black and Police Captain Evans faced the mob, and must have recognized many. Yet only one arrest has been made. And, while Mayor Fisher, the Chief of Police, and Captain Evans, Attorney-General Ward and his as- sistant, Richards, refuse to discuss the matter of the lynching or to disclose what plans, if any, they have for forcing an atonement for the shocking affair, boasts are openly made on the street that no jury wall ever be found in Wilmington to convict any one charged with participating in the deed. Judges Made Scapegoats The Supreme Court is made the scapegoat for the remarkable outbreak of Northern revenge. The judges calmly refused to listen to the insistence of the com- munity, inflamed by the negro's deed, that a speedy